Plasmid vectors and GRAS microorganisms promoting ice nucleation

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Ice nucleation is promoted in an ingestible biological material by treating the material with an ice-nucleating protein carried by a yeast or lactococcal GRAS microorganism, or a fraction thereof, transformed by a plasmid vector carrying a gene coding for the ice-nucleating protein.

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